Parisek Engineering

Clients

Parisek Engineering has worked with top international engineering firms, local building jurisdictions, and leading architects, developers, contractors and home/building design firms. We take pride in having successfully helped many home and building owners throughout California.

As a design build remodeling company, we have completed numerous projects with Matt Parisek’s help. Matt has treated every project with thoroughness and professionalism. His solution-oriented approach has consistently saved us time and money, and has helped us to produce outstanding results. Matt’s attention to detail and his willingness to review alternative construction methods has aided us many times in meeting our construction budgets without sacrificing design.

We can rely on Matt to turn our drawings around in a timely manner and to work with the City of Sacramento Building Department to facilitate approval of our plans, allowing us to meet our construction schedules. Matt Parisek is always pleasant to work with, and we will continue to call on him for our engineering needs.

Mark Abrahams
Abrahams Construction, Inc

I have had the pleasure of working with Mr. Parisek on several high end custom home projects and have found Mr. Parisek to be a very valuable resource. Mr. Parisek’s attention to detail and extensive technical expertise is very impressive. Mr. Parisek works diligently to value engineer his projects, helping to reduce costs. He takes a hands on approach to his work and is always available on short notice.

Jeffrey Jacobsen
Vice President
Coast Capital Group, Inc
Santa Monica, CA

In 2002 we moved our construction and remodeling business to El Dorado Hills, CA. Since that time, Matt has been our engineer of choice. Matt is precise, dependable and offers good advice pertaining to your building and permitting needs. We have also found that his fees are competitive and reasonable. Matt will go the extra mile to see that your needs are met efficiently, accurately and cost effectively.

Ted & Teresa Greenman
Greenman Construction, Inc
El Dorado Hills, CA

My experience with Matt Parisek has been overwhelmingly positive. I was in great need of assistance at the time that I met him. I was in the process of converting my commercial building in Midtown Sacramento from small retail use to restaurant use. A process that had already taken over 3 long years with an architect that simply was not getting the job done.

At the time that I first met Matt, the architects were stumped on a structural design that they simply had no solution to. Once I hired Matt, within a short three week period he managed to complete the design in full and amazingly, it was approved on the first cycle. I was truly astonished! This was a design that the former structural engineer and architect had worked on for almost a year with no end in sight. Obviously, I was glad to have made the change.

Matt Parisek's quality of work and level of expertise is second to none. He takes pride in his work, and is very thorough with making sure it's done right, complying with all city codes, ADA laws, etc. His level of integrity is what I like best. His primary focus is to figure out how to benefit the client, and not how to bill him. He always conducts himself from a very fair standpoint and is always concerned with putting out the best product possible. Matt Parisek has truly been a savior to my project.

Steve Tokuhama
Owner The G Street Pub and Kupros
Davis, CA

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Custom residence remodeling project. Kitchen remodeling and installation of 24 ft. wide openable wall system required re-analysis of the lateral support system for 2/3 fo the home. Engineering work enabled the architect's intenst to be adhered to fully, by providing a cost-effective solution to the structural challenges.
Structural design for new custom residence. The tower featured in the photo was designed as a moment-resisting wood frame structure, limiting the employment of of costly steel construction for this project. Other challenges were able to be met in the design, where expansive open areas were designed and constructed with wood framing construction and engineered trusses.
Structural design for second story major additions. Design-build team Maura and Mark Abrahams are specialists in renovations and additions to 1920s thru 1950s craftsman style homes in the midtown area of Sacramento. In the designs, one of the major goals in updating the space and livability requirements of their clients' homes is to accomplish this with minimal impact to the spirit and aesthetics brought to the project by the original designers of homes. When completed, the homes should not be distinguishable from ones done in the actual period.

This presents structural engineering challenges, requiring application of advanced wood frame design techniques so that modern codes and earthquake safety standards can be fully incorporated into the designs without compromising architectural considerations.
Building established in the late 1800s as a pony express stop. This structure has the original basement, with the original foundation constructed of large rocks & boulders from the area. A mine shaft opens into the basement, and extends approximately 3 miles.

A major challenge was to preserve the original rock foundation and mine shaft while reusing many of the original interior and exterior architectural features. The use of the building as a holistic medical consortium required updating all features to current code standards.
Emergency overflow spillway at Ritschard Dam, with access road. Worked as on-site engineer with oversight of construction activities, engaged with a large multi-national engineering firm. The concrete structure picture is founded in loose to cemented shales, and is located to the west of the dam.
Earthquake risk assessment and analysis for 150' x 50' partially underground enclosed concrete structure housing major control and switching equipment for the BART Hayward system. Roof of structure serves as a station, and supports double track for trains running both directions. Worked as project engineer for BRG Engineering, a bridge and rail structure specialist.

Work was performed with colleague Dr. Fang Li, an expert in advanced computer modeling and the seismic retrofit design of large bridges. The structure is critical to the operations of the BART system, and so the ability of the structure to be functional after a prescribed level of ground motion during predicted seismic events was critical. Underground structures present unique challenges when subjected to motion caused by seismic activity. The structure was analyzed, deficiencies were located and types of failures were predicted, and strengthening measures were designed.